"October Surprise" Via Email

Wow.  Just f***ing wow.

I get lots of online dating ads in my spam mail all the time.  Some of them are even from legitimate outfits.  Like for instance, eHarmony.com keeps sending me online invites, even after not much appreciating how I responded to one prior to Valentine's Day a few years back (and was a previous blog entry here).

Perhaps serious dating sites want to be taken seriously, what with all the fraud out there in datingland, a decent part of which I've highlighted in this blog over the years.

I've had ads for dating, Christian dating, Catholic dating, Jewish dating, special interest dating (ie, dating someone who likes a sport or activity that you do), "It's Just Lunch" dating, 'speed' dating, carbondating...a whole variety of dating.

But the one I just received was a new one on me, though I reckon it shouldn't be nowadays:  a dating site for cheating wives.  A discreet dating site for cheating wives.  So discreet, it wouldn't let me save the whole graphic from the email (as you can see above).

It's called "Married But Lonely".  I guess this is the online answer to Sex In The City.  My only answer to Sarah Jessica Parker is what the Martians did with her in Mars Attacks, but I digress.

Spousal cheating's been around since...spousals, I guess.  I bet we all know someone whose cheated on someone else in our lives.  Quite a well-known list of public figures cheat all the time, and have down the ages. 

Of course, spousal cheating has potentially loads of consequences.  Hollyweird couldn't have made that more clear than in the movie Fatal Attraction.  If your spouse doesn't go psycho on you, the one you cheated with might.

Besides, a vengeful spouse doesn't necessarily need to go psycho on the cheater:  there's always divorce court.  The results of which might make one wish they'd tangled with Glenn Close's character, instead of their spouse's attorney.

Celebrity/public figure cheating can have lots of negatives associated with it.  Just ask Ahnold.  Or sometimes it doesn't; just ask Bill Clinton.

At any rate, the site invited me to post a discreet profile, so that I could be discreetly contacted by local frustrated wives, looking for discreet liaisons of the discreet horizontal mambo kind. 

Now, my own personal philosophy has for the most part been to avoid these kinds of situations.  I've found that life provides plenty of moments of drama -- usually at inopportune times -- so to go looking for more of this kind is, at least to me, downright silly.

Besides, I bait online scammers and chase tornadoes, both of which are pretty sillys ways (I'm told) to attract drama in my life.

Still...there's a temptation here.  Not to help someone else cheat; but to see what they consider to be a 'discreet profile'.  So I 'discreetly' forwarded the email to the address used by my pet rock, Seymour, and had Seymour 'discreetly' make an inquiry.

"Did NOT!!!"

That's okay, Seymour:  you didn't get far enough to make it to having a 'discreet' profile.  Seems that when you sign up, BEFORE you get to make a 'discreet' profile, you have to commit a credit card, just in case you go beyond their 3 day 'free' trial...at which time you start paying $34.95 per month.

"So why didn't you sign me up for 3 free days?"

Because you ain't got a credit card.

"YOU do!!!"

Like I said...YOU ain't got a credit card.

"Phfffffffft!"

Now that Seymour's pouting, I did a little 'screen capture' from the site, just so's you get a flavor of the site  in their own words:


Lonely Wives That don’t play hard to get.
Extramarital Affairs • Discreet Dates • Secret Lovers • • Private Relationships

What are you waiting for? Start your search tonight.

MARRIED DATING AT MARRIED BUT LONELY
Time and time again married men and women get tired and bored with their relationships. Married couples sometimes need a new spark in their love life or a change of pace to keep things exciting. Here at Married But Lonely we do just that. We help single or married men & married women find and secure a discreet date online. If you are looking for a one night adventure, or possibly a new life partner, married dating makes it easy for you to search and find what you are truly looking for. With over 12 years in the industry of discreet dating advice we know what people want. Married dating redefines the possibilities of dating for the select crowd looking for more than what they get at home.
THE MARRIED BUT LONELY DATING COMMUNITY
Everyday men and women join Married But Lonely for a chance to flirt and chat with married women. It could be your next door neighbor or your co-workers wife looking for that next secret affair or discreet date. You never know until you browse the thousands of personals online. Married women are looking for much more than dinner and a movie. The married dating community is an active playground full of surprises and discreet encounters that you can experience today when you set up a free profile. Whether you are shy or outgoing there is someone here for everyone.


I decided that since this doesn't fit me ethically, and since my pet rock would rather travel around the country visiting blogging friends -- than be chased around by a vengeful, jealous spouse -- I could find better things for $34.95 a month to go toward.

Like chinese food delivery ;-)